A prominent Marvel Rivals leaker claims that three highly requested X-Men characters could be coming to NetEase Games' popular hero shooter.

NetEase Games surprises fans by announcing that players will soon be able to participate in a new Spring Festival event within Marvel Rivals.

Marvel Rivals recently kicked off season 1, introducing Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman as new playable heroes along with a new convoy map that takes you through the streets of a Dracula-controlled New York. It's been a strong start for the game that first launched in early December.

Look, I know half the conversation around Marvel Rivals is taken up with comparing it to its obvious inspiration, Overwatch 2, but sometimes it’s hard to talk about much else when developer NetEase continues to copy Overwatch 2’s homework and makes little effort to hide it.

It’s hard to stop making Overwatch comparisons to Marvel Rivals, given how familiar the latter’s upcoming Chinese New Year event looks. Those of us who’ve been playing Blizzard’s hero shooter for the past eight years have seen this all before.

NetEase Games has revealed the Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event, which adds a handful of new hero skins and a soccer game mode that might look familiar to Overwatch and Rocket League players. The team behind the hero shooter hit announced its latest update with a trailer,